Horseshoe.



S. N. MILTON.

HORSESHOE.

APPLIOATIONiI'ILED-JUNE 29,1912.

' 1,056,436, Patented Marl18, 191s.

w vbwwazo SAMUEL N. MILTON, OF SPENCER, IDAHO.

HORSESHOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

Application filed .Tune 29, 1912. Serial No. 706,768.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL N. MILTON, citizen of the United States,residing at Spencer, in the county of Fremont and State of Idaho, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Horseshoes, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to horse shoes and has as its object to provide ahorse shoe having hardened integral calks.

It is one aim of the invention to provide a horseshoe bar havinghardened steel inserts embedded in its ends, the inserts being so formedthat when the bar is formed into a shoe, its ends may be bent at anangle to the body so as to form calks, and after these calks have beenworn down the shoe may be re-formed and its ends again bent to formcalks.

For a full understanding of the invention reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is aperspective view of a horse shoe constructed in accordance wit-h thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view onthe line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating one endof the horse shoe bar before being rolled. Fig. 4 is a similar viewillustrating the other end. I

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawingby the same reference characters.

In the drawing, the body of the shoe is indicated by the numeral 1, andis formed from a bar which is, with the exception of certain features tobe presently described, of the same form as the ordinary horse shoe bar.The shoe itself, is also, as far as its general form is concerned,approximately the same as the ordinary shoe. However, the shoe isprovided at its heel ends with downwardly projecting calks, one of whlchis indicated by the numeral 2 and the other by the numeral 3, the calkindicated at 2 extending transversely of the heel end of the shoe andthe one indicated at 3 extending longitudinally of the respectiveheel-end of the shoe. This arrangement of the calks serves to preventlateral slipping of the shoe upon the road surface, as well as forwardor rearward slipping.

As before stated, a hardened steel insert is embedded in each end of thehorse shoe bar so that when the ends of the bar are bent up, hardenedsteel calks will be afforded at the heel ends of the shoe. That one ofthe inserts which constitutes a portion of the calk 3 is shown in Fig. 3of the drawing and the one which constitutes a portion of the calk 2 isshown in Fig. 4. The insert shown in Fig. 3 consists of a body shaped toresemble a double wedge, one wedge shaped portion of the body beingindicated by the numeral 4 and the other by the numeral 5. It will beobserved that the upper and under faces of these portions of the bodylie in parallel planes and that their other opposite faces lie inconverging planes. It will also be observed that the minor end of theportion 5 is integral wit-h the base or major end of the portion 4. Thisinsert is disposed as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing in abifurcation 6 formed in the horse shoe bar and as illustrated in thismanner the bar is fed between rollers and subjected at the same time toa welding heat. This treatment of the bar will serve to embed the insertin the end of the bar so that when finished the bar will haveapproximately the same appearance as the ordinary horse shoe bar.

The insert shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing includes portions 7 and 8which correspond to the portions 4 and 5 and in fact this insert issubstantially identical with that shown in the said Fig. 3. However, itis disposed within a bifurcation 9 formed in the other end of the horseshoe bar in a position at right angles to that assumed by the insert inFig. 3.

I11 forming up the shoe after the body has been formed to the propersize and curvature, the ends of the shoe are bent up approximately onthe dotted lines a a and b b in Figs. 3 and 4 respectively, and thesebent up ends are then shaped as shown in F igs. 1 and 2. It will beunderstood that the calks thus formed may consist of the portions 4 1004 and 7 have been worn down, the shoe may 105 be re-formed, and its endsagain bent, but at this time substantially on the dotted lines 0 c and dcl, respectively, so as to present new calks.

Having thus described the invention what 110 is claimed as new is 1. Ahorse shoe comprising a body having each of its heel ends bent to form acalk, and a hardened insert in each heel end of the body, each insertincluding a tapered portion embedded in the material of the calk and asimilar tapered portion integral therewith and embedded in the materialof the body inwardly of the calk.

2. A horse shoe comprising a body having a hardened insert in one of itsheel ends, the said insert consisting of a body having substantially theform of a double wedge with the minor end of one wedge portion integralwith the major end of the other wedge portion, and the said heel end ofthe body being bent to form a calk having embedded therein one of thesaid wedge portions.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signa ture in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL N. MILTON. [L. s.] lVitnesses C. W. HARDY, J. W. BEAUREGARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of latents, Washington, D. C.

